Couple Bamboozled Into Thinking a Distressed Kitten Is Trapped in Their Home, Turns Out to Be the Woman’s Shoes Making a Meowing Noise

Once you hear the sound a kitten makes when it's alone and scared it echoes in your head forever. It's such a heartbreaking sound and if you hear it again, you instantly go into high alert. Where can this poor kitty be trapped? How do I save it?? I must find this trapped kitty! A cat in distressed is absolutely heartbreaking to see even if you're not a “cat person.” 

So when TikToker @nichola.janex and her boyfriend heard a kitten mewing for help somewhere in their home, they put a halt to anything and everything they were currently doing and started searching. Who knows how long it took them before they found where it was coming from. Every set they made they could hear the cat meowing in desperation. They kept telling each other to “shut up!” so they could hear the cat and find where it was hiding. 

Eventually, and I'm sure very slowly, a realization started to creep into their heads. The girlfriend took a step and the cat meowed. Why were these two things always together?? Well, have you ever owned those really comfy squishy slide-on shoes that everyone calls sliders? Well, sometimes after they've been worn for a while or are wet, they start to make a squeaky noise when you step down… A noise that sounds very similar to a small creature in distress… Like, perhaps, a kitten…

The couple started “howling” with laughter after they realized they had been searching all that time for a kitten that never existed. Turns out the kitten in distress mewing at them to help and come find them was girlfriend's shoes… Her shoes were squeaking in distress like a kitten.

“Absolutely howling”

The entire scenario is hilarious and seems like a something that would happen in a sitcom. However, the comment section proves that this is a common occurrence with these kinds of shoes. Turns out tons of people who wear these slides walk around thinking and panicking that there is a trapped small innocent creature somewhere that is desperately calling out for help. One person said they almost called their local fire station to come help her look for the trapped kitty in her house that she keeps hearing but simply can't find anywhere! I'm glad so many people go out of their way to save a desperate kitten before even seeing the little guy, but also, maybe these shoes should come with a warning?